On the recordMay 5, 1994
last Thursday in Easley, SC, staff at a local bank reported a man for suspicious behavior. As police officers approached the man, he reached into a bag for a 9mm pistol, whereupon an officer shot him. In the man's nearby car police found a loaded AK-47 assault rifle with extra magazines of ammunition. One officer said, ``I doubt he was going deer hunting.'' Whether the man intended to rob the bank, or was merely dangerously insane, one thing is clear: He knew what kind of tools he needed. Think of AK-47's or TEC-9's and you think of criminals. You think of violence, drive-by shootings, random murder, destruction. These weapons are the macho symbol of lawlessness. More and more the lawless employ them. It is clear what place these weapons have in our society: It is a place of self-destruction. Vote to ban these tools of anarchy. If we do not, we enshrine this violence in our culture.
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